Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
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Good Friday

Share Good Fri­day also known as Holy Friday, is observed on the Fri­day before Easter Sun­day. In the Catholic church, Good Fri­day is the day on which we com­mem­o­rate the pas­sion (or suf­fer­ing) and death of Jesus Christ on the Cross [His Cru­ci­fix­ion] — the act that brought sal­va­tion to those who believe. On this day the […]

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Madoff Made Off with Millions of My Money!

Share What a title! It kinda sounds like a tongue twister. It was either that or “Mad­off Made Off with Much of My Money.” But then I real­ized, who cares?! Cause this post has noth­ing to do with tongue twisters or that scum bag! I’ve come across sev­eral ver­sions of this title on the internet, […]

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Vintage Advertising — Ah, the Good Old Days!

Share all i can say is that adver­tis­ing has come a long way since the olden days! some ads that were accept­able in the past, would not be tol­er­ated today, while oth­ers are sim­ply funny or silly due to our value sys­tem which has rad­i­cally changed. take a look at some great vin­tage ads below […]

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Bangladeshi Rape Victim Receives 101 Lashes for Becoming Pregnant!

Share a 16 year old girl was lashed 101 times after vil­lage elders decided that was the suit­able pun­ish­ment for becom­ing preg­nant out­side mar­riage — on the other hand, the 20 year old rapist was par­doned with a pat on the back! human rights activists say that the girl was too ashamed to report the rape […]

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Women in the Workforce

Share it seems like moons ago when women were best known for tak­ing care of chil­dren, cook­ing meals, clean­ing dishes, doing house chores, vac­u­um­ing… and although i’m sure we — and i use the term ‘we’ very loosely here — still do these things quite well, we have made huge progress in the work­force the […]

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Why Americans Are Fat

Share ever won­der why almost 2/3 of amer­i­cans are over­weight? i came across an inter­est­ing arti­cle that was pub­lished by eliz­a­beth kol­bert in the new yorker in july 2009 about the evo­lu­tion of obe­sity and why amer­i­cans are fat — it doesn’t focus on the usual fast food expla­na­tions — instead, it takes a rather  […]

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Condoms Too Big for Indian Men!

Share a laugh out loud emoti­con would not do jus­tice to what my reac­tion was while read­ing this arti­cle on the bbc news web­site. see­ing the self-explanatory title, i pre­sume you have a rel­a­tively good idea of what this post will entail…yes, lit­tle indian tails! a sur­vey of more than 1,000 men has con­cluded that […]

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